3 dead after church camp bus crash in Indiana

A bus carrying teenagers returning home from a church camp in Michigan crashed Saturday afternoon about a mile from its destination, killing three people and sending 26 others to hospitals, officials said.

The bus came speeding off I-465 in northern Indianapolis, about a mile from the Colonial Hills Baptist Church that passengers attended. It struck a retaining wall as it tried to round a curve and overturned.

The dead included a husband and wife, Indianapolis Public Safety Director Tony Riggs said. Authorities did not provide information on the third victim.

Burning Man gets OK for larger crowd

The largest outdoor arts festival in North America is about to become bigger.

Federal land managers have issued Burning Man organizers a four-year special recreation permit that allows a peak population of 68,000 on the northern Nevada desert this year.

Last year, attendance at the Black Rock Desert festival peaked at some 53,000 – well below the previous maximum allowable population of 60,900.

The festival will be held Aug. 26 to Sept. 2.

Cleaning continues at Lincoln Memorial

On Saturday, tourists again flocked to the Lincoln Memorial. It remains open as workers continue to wash away stains after paint was discovered splashed on it early Friday morning. Authorities have released no additional details about who may have besmirched the memorial or why.

On Saturday afternoon, cleaners continued washing off residue at the memorial, said Carol Bradley Johnson, spokeswoman for the National Mall and Memorial Parks division of the National Park Service. The Park Service is cleaning cautiously to prevent the statue from being besmirched any further. It is unclear when the statue will be fully cleaned.

Woman presumed dead in N.Y. boat crash

A woman set to be married in two weeks is presumed dead, and her fiancé's best man remains missing Saturday after a boating accident Friday night on the Hudson River, authorities said.

The driver of the boat, Jojo K. John, 35, was accused of driving the vessel while intoxicated and was charged with vehicular manslaughter and vehicular assault.

Lindsey Stewart, 30, was with her fiancé, Brian Bond, 35, and four other friends in a Stingray speedboat when it struck a construction barge just south of the Tappan Zee Bridge at about 10:40 p.m., the authorities said.

Police said they found the body of a woman matching Stewart's description floating offshore Saturday. The Rockland County medical examiner was working to determine cause of death and make an identification, police said.

Pitchman in contempt for not paying fine

A federal judge has found author and infomercial pitchman Kevin Trudeau in contempt of court for failing to pay a more than $37 million fine imposed over misleading ads for one of his wildly popular weight-loss books.

Friday's ruling was the latest round in more than a decade of legal battles that began with a Federal Trade Commission suit. The regulatory agency alleged some of Trudeau's informercials included false and misleading statements about his books.

A federal judge in Chicago agreed and ordered him to stop. Then in 2007, Judge Robert Gettleman fined Trudeau $37.6 million for violating the order.

Judge tacks on

50 years in rape case

A New Jersey judge has added 50 years in prison for a man convicted of sexually assaulting two of his daughters.

The Paterson man faced one of his daughters Friday at a state Superior Court hearing. He was convicted in March of aggravated sexual assault.

The man's name wasn't reported to protect the identity of his victims. He's already serving 40 years on an earlier conviction and faces three more trials.

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